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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 35:12 → Leviticus 3:14-16

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 35:12BSB

They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the Book of Moses; and they did the same with the bulls.

Earlier text

Leviticus 3:14-16BSB

And from his offering he shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them, both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys. Then the priest is to burn the food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the LORD's.

Significance

Leviticus 3:14-16 details the specific fat portions of the peace offering that belong exclusively to the LORD and must be burned on the altar. 2 Chronicles 35:12 records Josiah's Passover reform where the Levites "set aside the burnt offerings" with the fat portions (חֵלֶב) to be offered "as is written in the Book of Moses." The Chronicler's note that they followed the Mosaic regulations precisely indicates that the Leviticus 3 fat-separation procedures served as the operative manual for Josiah's reform. The careful distinction between God's portion (the fat burned on the altar) and the people's portion (the remaining meat) reflects the Levitical theology that the choicest parts of every sacrifice belong to God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Leviticus 3:14-16 reserves the fat of the offering for God alone ("All the fat is the LORD's," burned "as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma"), and 2 Chronicles 35:12 shows that allocation still operative at Josiah's Passover, where the portions are set aside "as is written in the Book of Moses"; the developing theme of God's exclusive portion in every sacrifice runs from the Levitical peace-offering law into monarchic practice, schooling Israel that the best belongs wholly to God — a consecration fulfilled in Christ's entire self-offering.